GRE Word List
PHOENIX
a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period
The meaning of the word phoenix is a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| profligate | wildly extravagant |
| subversive | the act of subverting : the state of being subverted |
| swerve | to turn aside abruptly from a straight line or course : deviate |
| momentous | having great or lasting importance : consequential |
| abode | the place where one lives : home |
| opus | work |
| humanitarian | a person promoting human welfare and social reform : philanthropist |
| loquacious | full of excessive talk : wordy |
| abeyance | a state of temporary inactivity : suspension |
| servile | of or befitting a menial position |